*Disclaimer: I don't owe Sailor Moon (and never will) *

*Disclaimer: I don't owe Sailor Moon (and never will) *

Seiya was sitting in the Welcomnes' library. He decided to learn more about this planet. He was waiting impatiently to see Usagi again. He hadn't seen her for a few days. She had left for the training camp with lowers. After the night when she had been practicing paired attack with Aso he had seen her only once. It had been during the morning meal next morning. She had been looking pale and exhausted yet she had been more beautiful then ever. She had such a sad gaze. The ikarian boy (her friend) had had a sickened look as well. They hadn't eaten anything, and when the time to leave had come, they just had raised and had left. She hadn't looked at Seiya even once, although he had been watching her almost all the time. He had noticed that all the lowers who had been assigned for the training had seemed bugged. He had wondered how she would make it after such a hard training. He had wanted to help her so much. Only thing he could do at the moment was waiting. He decided to use the time when she was gone for something useful that would help him later on. Taiki, Yaten and Marc found the idea interesting and were studying with him.

The lowers had been absent for five days. They came back on the fifth day for the evening meal. Seiya was expecting to see them tired and sad as they had been when they had been leaving. He was surprised to see them in joyful moods. They were dirty and looked tired yet they seemed to be happy. Seiya saw just a glimpse of her during the evening meal. Lowers were taking baths and were late for the supper. She came in late, but she looked well. She was smiling and talking to other lowers. She laughed and joked. His heart sunk. He wanted to talk to her too so badly. Soon after she had come in monarchs were asked out from the dining hall. The doors were closed for monarchs. Lowers sat in there till the late night and were having fun.

Lowers were allowed to sleep longer next morning. It was very rare occasion. Seiya couldn't speak to Usagi before the morning meal because she didn't show up. During the midday lowers started to show up in the courtyards and gardens. They had a day off. They were playing games or lying in the sun. There was a joyful picnic atmosphere in the air. Seiya convinced others to spend a day in the garden. He hoped he could see her there. Marc who was very interested in lower's customs agreed. He wanted to study the trees in the orchid and he hoped lowers could give him more information then there were to be found in the books. They started to walk around with book. Marc was examining every plant, collecting leaves and flowers. He would read about each one. Taiki would listen to him with interest, Seiya was looking around and Yaten was bored. They aproached the next tree.

"It's Evergreen a beautiful tree. Its flowers have a magnificent scent. It's also known for wide soft branches where ikarians and other flying creatures rest. I've even heard that it's a love tree of ikarians. There are plenty Evergreens in ikarians cities. I understand why. I've never seen a tree with that many leaves and flowers. Absolutely marvelous!" Marc approached the tree and tried to reach for a flower. It was too high. He tried to shake the trunk. Although the tree was wide it shook a little. One flower fell down. Marc asked others to help him. They shook the tree again to get more flowers. Suddenly they heard a yell.

"What the hell?" The leaves rustled and stared to fall. Another yells followed. Few second afterwards an ikarian man fell on the ground. It seemed that when falling down he pushed others. Few second later about ten ikarians fell of the tree. They were half conscious and surprised. The last one was a blond girl, who fell on ikarian boy. She looked as if she was just awakening.

"Damn. You should watch what you are doing Tertit! You have knocked us off." said one of the ikarians.

"Hey it wasn't me. Those four monarchs over there shook the tree and I fell". Those ikarians who already stood up looked at Marc and three cousins. Ikarians were amazingly looking people. They were very proud, their faces were noble and they had beautiful wide wings of different colors. Sometimes they hid them, but after falling of the tree they had their wings spread.

"We were just interested in this tree…We didn't know…" Marc started to explain himself. Ikarians looked at him. They seem to be calm although they were awoken in such a rude way. One of them became aggressive.

"You will pay for waking us up monarch." He raised his hands ready to attack.

The blond girl who was explaining herself to the ikarian she had fallen on to stood up quickly. She already noticed Seiya and her eyes clouded.

"Stop it, they are just stupid monarchs. Let's avoid problems with them, they are not worth it" she said and caught ikarian's hand. Ikarian looked annoyed but he calmed down and left quickly.

After the angry ikarian had left she sighed with relief. She looked at four men and said in a lighter but impatient tone.

"Four of you interrupted our precious time off. We were sleeping on the branches of that beautiful tree and you shook us down. We were having beautiful dreams after our hard training. We should punish you in the name of all the resting lowers. We won't do it only because we know how silly and clumsy monarchs are. But tell us why did you do it?"

"We didn't mean to, it was an accident, we didn't know someone was on that tree."

"Think before you do something monarch. You are not on your home planet. Take us into consideration. Your lives will relay on us. We are resting here before the quest." Four monarchs looked at her. Other ikarians came closer and were looking at monarchs.

"What is the kind of that tree" Marc asked ikarians as if he wasn't listening to Usagi.

"Evergreen" one of ikarians answered. Usagi sighed impatiently and looked at the ikarian who responed.

"I am bored" said Erst while looking around. "Let's find centaurs and have some fun".

"You should go ahead. I am going to sleep more, I am tired and sleeping is my plan for the rest of the day" Usagi answered.Seiya tried to listen to her conversation. She didn't know that three of them knew common lower's language a bit.

"Come on, you can't sleep all your life."

"Phi, we will see about that. I will show you what I am capable of. You'll be surprised."

"But we want to have fun with you. It's not the same when one of us is missing. Cer said we could make a race. You would ride Cer and I would ride Ceiri."

"Nevertheless I need to sleep"

"Is it true that ikarians are the laziest species?" asked Marc ikarian man who would speak to him. He got interest of all the ikarians. One of them answered in offended tone.

"No, of course it's not true, actually tigers sleep more, humans like to drink and dance, and Pegasus just like to stand for the whole day and…!" said one of the ikarians.

"This one here is a good example of a lazy ikarian" said Erst pointing at Usagi.

"Hey!" she exclaimed in offended tone. Seiya laughed and she sent him a hateful look.

"Is this true that Evergreen is a love tree of ikarians and it's a place where ikarians make love?" asked Marc. Everyone looked at him. Ikarians smiled and some of them became red on their faces.

"Marc…" said Yaten. Ikarians looked at each other with consternation.

"What is this question anyway?" Usagi said.

"Is it true or not Odango?" said Seiya with a smile.

"How should I know?" Just as she said it two ikarians showed up holding their hands.

"Is this tree taken?" newcomer asked.

"No one is on it at the moment" answered a tall ikarian boy.

"Thanks! We will take it then" said the girl and they disappeared in the leaves.

"Hey!" exclaimed other ikarians.

"No, don't do it there! Not now! I wanted to sleep there! Damn!" Usagi said and put her hand to forehead.

One of the ikarians who were standing under a tree yelled "Get off, we were sleeping there!"

"Sorry, you have to go somewhere else!" answered ikarian girl from the tree. All of the ikarians sighed with resignation.

"I guess that answers your question monarch about passion tree. But really those two…in the middle of the day…we were resting there... It's just disgusting." Usagi said with annoyance. She spoke to Erst "What should I do? Should I look for another tree? No, the sleeping mood is gone. Let's find centaurs, I need to talk to Cer anyway".

"Hey Odango if you have some time maybe you can show us around. You could tell us a lot and we would not disturb other lowers." said Seiya.

"Don't even ask! It's out of the question monarch." She looked at him with annoyance.

"Why?"

"I explained it to you the other day monarch."

"You used to call me by my name, which is Seiya. (I hope you haven't forgotten it?)."

"So? Now I call you monarch." She seemed to get angrier but her ikarian friend didn't seem to notice it.

"Hurry up, I want to have fun. Today is resting day. Stop fooling around." Erst just grabbed her by arm and pulled her. She left without looking back. Seiya was saddened by that. He really desired to talk with her but he realized it wouldn't be easy. He knew that back on Earth she hadn't returned his feelings, yet they had been very good and close friends. They could talk and had understood each other very well. Their friendship couldn't satisfy him because his feeling had been much deeper. At the moment their former (and unfinished from his point of view) friendship would make him very happy. They had parted as friends on Earth. He couldn't understand why she would avoid them.

While Seiya was thinking, Marc carried on with conversation with one of the ikarians who spoke well Interplanetary Common language. The rest of the ikarians left.